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Experiencing Indonesia »
30 years of ACICIS
Publication date: July 2026
This book examines the many and varied dimensions of the Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) and celebrates its 30th anniversary. Charting the institutional history of ACICIS alongside the development, innovation and impact of its programs, this volume captures personal insights from ACICIS alumni as well as staff members and partners from Australia and Indonesia. Contributors bring diverse perspectives and insights to reflect on and analyse the significance of ACICIS programs.
This book highlights the pioneering structures that enabled in‑country, experiential learning for young Australians in Indonesia; the development of highly innovative programs created in collaboration with Indonesian partners; and the impact of ACICIS on participants, staff, partners and host communities as well as on broader Australia–Indonesia bilateral relations. This rich and varied account of ACICIS’ context, operations and impact can inform decision-making and program design for learning abroad programs in Indonesia and beyond.
A central theme of this book is ACICIS’ commitment to experiential learning and its transformative impact on lives and relationships for individuals, institutions and communities. There are indeed many human faces of ACICIS; this volume presents their voices.
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The Digital Transformation in China »
Edited by: Ligang Song, Yixiao Zhou
Publication date: 2026
China stands at a pivotal moment in its economic history. Ageing demographics and the erosion of traditional low-cost advantages are necessitating a shift away from factor-driven growth toward innovation and productivity. The digital economy — powered by artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and fintech — has emerged as the central force reshaping how China produces, trades and governs.
China Update Book 2026 brings together leading economists and policy analysts to examine this transformation in depth. Drawing on rigorous empirical research, the volume traces how ICT industries have driven output and productivity growth, how digital innovation interacts with China’s broader innovation system, and how AI is modernising China’s industrial structure. It investigates the rapid but uneven expansion of digital finance — from mobile payments that have largely displaced cash in urban everyday life to fintech services reshaping rural credit markets — and asks whether China’s financial system has achieved inclusive depth or merely impressive reach.
The volume also examines data as a distinct factor of production in regional growth, the use of digital technology to transform rural governance, and the policy frameworks governing data-driven economies. Chapters on China’s international balance sheet, its rising current account surplus, and the resilience of its export sector, as intermediate goods push it up global value chains, situate digital transformation within the wider macroeconomic landscape. Further contributions address the impact of US technology export controls, China’s data localisation laws, the digitalisation of production and trade, and the promise of digital agriculture.
Authoritative, timely and wide-ranging, China Update Book 2026 is essential reading for scholars, policymakers and anyone seeking to understand how digital transformation is redefining China’s economic future.
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Confronting Australia’s Childcare Crisis »
Authored by: Andrew Scott
Publication date: 2026
Australian childcare is in crisis. Revelations in the last two years of the serious harm being done to many of Australia’s youngest citizens, in places meant for their education and care, have shocked the nation. Failings simmering for decades are forcing a policy reckoning. In this book, Professor Andrew Scott outlines expert evidence and international experience to demonstrate how we can best make childcare safe and invest in children’s crucial first 5 years. Further, Scott demonstrates how the public outlay on policy measures needed will result in a substantial net financial gain for taxpayers. He advocates a future in which traditional Australian community involvement in early learning, together with innovative new forms of provision, are mobilised to support parents, properly value the work of childcare professionals, boost women’s workforce participation and increase the role played by fathers in the lives of their children. Out of crisis, as Professor Scott powerfully shows, comes the opportunity for far-reaching, beneficial social change.
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Terra in Our Mist »
A Tūhoe Narrative of Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler-State Violence
Authored by: Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman
Publication date: June 2026
Terra in Our Mist examines the persistence of state violence against Ngāi Tūhoe – the illustrious People of the Mist – whose ancestral homeland of Te Urewera stands as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most storied and contested landscapes. It focuses on a pattern of police violence: the 2007 anti-terror raids, codenamed Operation Eight, which centred on Ruatoki – one of the principal valleys of Te Urewera – and subsequent operations in 2012, 2014 and 2016. The book asks why such actions continue, and what they reveal about the unfinished nature of colonisation today.
These events are situated within a longer whakapapa (genealogy) of colonial engagement: a history of invasion, confiscation and control stretching back to the nineteenth century. Putting Indigenous scholarship in conversation with Michel Foucault’s ideas on power and the state, the book explores how differing understandings of land – terra, a space claimed through violence, and whenua, a living ground of ancestral belonging – continue to shape the relationship between Tūhoe and the state.
The police raids are shown not as isolated excesses, but as contemporary expressions of a colonial logic that has long sought to discipline Indigenous peoples and their sovereignties. By drawing these connections, Terra in Our Mist argues that the state’s claim to sovereignty depends on periodic re-enactments of force upon Indigenous communities. Blending ethnography, visual narrative and political critique, this book traces how the ground itself becomes a site of contest: over history, authority and the meaning of place in an unsettled world.
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Indigenous Songs of Victoria »
Publication date: June 2026
Indigenous Songs of Victoria seeks to do justice to the songsters, the clever men and women of traditional Indigenous societies who made these artistic treasures, as well as to the many people who have valued, written down or otherwise recorded these songs, so that they can be heard, read and delighted in today.
The rich diversity of Indigenous songs collected in this book is a cultural treasure of Victoria and Australia. The authors bring together here well over 100 different song texts with musical transcriptions and analysis, cultural context and, for many, translations.
This volume brings the rich knowledge and artistic skill of the song-makers of Indigenous Victoria to a wider audience and makes the sources of these songs, in manuscripts, old journals and sound recordings, accessible, often for the first time.
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 49 »
Edited by: Crystal McKinnon, Ben Silverstein
Publication date: May 2026
In this volume, Nicholas Pitt and Heidi Norman trace Wiradjuri, Gomeroi and Wailwan histories of smallpox in the 1830s, emphasising Aboriginal understandings, responses to and treatments for the disease they called either Boulol or Thunna Thunna. This work reveals the networks of knowledge and experience that secured the survival of people in Country. Gary Foley, Clare Land and Shannon Woodcock then document a Community Organisation Course offered at Swinburne College of Technology, 1975–1977. The importance of this course can be seen in the sovereign futures it enabled; participants went on in the following years to organise Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and other Black Power movements across the southeast of the continent. The following article, by Will Bracks, takes up this theme in describing the networks involved in organising Rock Against Racism concerts in Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney throughout the 1980s. Organised in a manner characteristic of Black Power, this series of concerts raised political consciousness and generated resources to support Aboriginal communities.
Turning to the West, Sean Winter considers Noongar practices of cultural burning in the mid-nineteenth century, a period of government suppression through legislation that limited the way Noongar people could care for Country; Winter shows us how an insistence on displacing Noongar knowledges has caused cultural and ecological harm. Lastly, Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui brings to the fore the valuable writing of John Naish, a Welsh author based in the Queensland cane fields in the mid-twentieth century. Naish’s realist novels and autobiography, she shows us, offer us insight into the position and resistance of Aboriginal people in tropical north Queensland.
East Asia Forum Quarterly: Volume 18, Number 2, 2026 »
Publication date: May 2026
There is renewed focus on cooperation among middle powers following Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address at the March 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. But the shift towards more active middle power diplomacy predates Carney’s remarks. This issue of the East Asia Forum Quarterly brings together analyses of how key middle powers across the Asia Pacific are seeking to work in concert—despite the significant constraints to strengthen their strategic position and sustain the regional and international order. The regional landscape is still complicated, but cannot be fully understood through the lens of great power competition alone.
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At the Brink? »
Asia in the Global Economic Order
Edited by: Shiro Armstrong, Yves Tiberghien
Publication date: 2026
The global economic order is undergoing a period of profound transformation. Heightened geopolitical rivalry, rapid technological change and growing concerns about economic security are reshaping trade, investment, supply chains and global governance. These developments raise fundamental questions about the future of openness, cooperation and economic growth for Asia and the Pacific region.
This volume brings together leading scholars and policy experts from across Asia and the Pacific to examine how the region is navigating an increasingly contested international economic environment. The chapters explore the dynamics of great-power competition, the restructuring of global supply chains, the strategic role of technology and the pressures facing the liberal international economic order. They also consider the prospects for regional cooperation and the policy choices that may allow the region to sustain economic integration and prosperity in a more fragmented world. The book offers nine innovative proposals to buttress the global economic order and respond to current challenges.
Based on papers presented at the 41st Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Conference, At the Brink? offers timely analysis of the evolving global economic landscape and provides insights into how Asia and the wider international community can respond to the challenges of a shifting world economy.
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Uneven Rewards »
Milestones in Labour Economics
Authored by: Alison L Booth
Publication date: May 2026
Uneven Rewards brings together major studies of workplace relations and behaviour from the distinguished labour economist Alison L Booth. Over more than three decades, Booth has forged a distinctive intellectual path combining a strong interest in the role of gender and culture on labour markets with acute expertise in data collection, and cognate social science fields and methods.
With her co-authors, Booth examines the effects on men and women of evolving industrial relations’ rules and contexts. She studies the changing gendered and culturally specific nature of labour markets, and analyses the findings of a set of data-rich social experiments to reveal insights about women’s and men’s behaviour in labour, educational and wider social settings.
Finally, Booth shares new conclusions arising from this extensive body of research. She shows how culture and nurture associated with the upbringing of boys and girls can have profound implications for educational and labour market performance and relative outcomes by gender:
There is no right or wrong place for young women and men to be. What matters is that they are given the opportunity to go where their talents lead them without being thwarted by cultural pressures.
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Vā Moana »
Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity
Edited by: Albert L. Refiti, A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, Billie Lythberg, Arielle Walker, Emily Parr
Publication date: April 2026
Vā may be a small word, but it carries expansive meaning. Rooted in Indigenous Pacific knowledges—Samoan vā, Tongan tā-vā, Māori and Hawaiian wā—this concept of relational space binds people, ancestors and cosmologies across time and place. Since the late 1990s, vā has become a powerful framework in academic and cultural contexts, energising conversations across Oceania and beyond.
As the world grapples with the rise of hyper-individualism, vā offers an urgent and restorative alternative: one that centres connection, responsibility and collective belonging. This rich collection of individually and collaboratively authored chapters explores how vā, wā, and related Indigenous concepts are lived, theorised and practised today. Drawing from diverse disciplines and grounded in specific cultural contexts, these contributions deepen our understanding of relationality, space and place across the Moana.
The AUT Vā Moana Research Centre is dedicated to exploring spatial concepts through Moananui (Pacific) thought. Established in 2012 by Albert L. Refiti and A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul at Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design, Vā Moana brings together a vibrant international network of scholars. Their work reimagines how space is understood and experienced, both in contemporary and customary Pacific contexts.
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